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Series of YouTube videos show off Apple's Snow Leopard

A YouTube user going by the name 'LeopardOctober' has recently posted over a half dozen videos taken from recent pre-release builds of Apple's Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard operating system, showing off everything from QuickLook movie playback to the new QuickTime X interface.

All of the videos, as well as some screenshots, can be seen over at the user's YouTube page. Many of the videos must be accessed directly through the video file sharing site, as they cannot be embedded externally. For the most part, the videos highlight features and technologies that have been been disclosed and discussed.

For example, the first video provides an overview of advances to Snow Leopard's Finder, such as the "Put Back" option for returning items placed in the trash to their original location, high-resolution icons, nested folder navigation via a Stack's grid view, super-sized QuickLook movie previews, and the new universal keyboard shortcut preference pane.


Click to view this video at YouTube.

Another video shows how to assign applications to individual Spaces and also dives into demos of some of the more advanced text services that were detailed previously, such as text substitutions.

Also covered previously was the new interface for QuickTime X Player, which can be seen in the below video, complete with new trim controls and borderless playback. The player is also used to demonstrate Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard's startup video in the following clip.

Snow Leopard
Click to view this video at YouTube.
Snow Leopard
Click to view this video at YouTube.

A fifth video shows a PDF being viewed as jumbo-sized QuickLook icons while a sixth details some new search-related preferences.

Snow Leopard
Click to view this video at YouTube.

LeopardOctober's YouTube page was brought to our attention by the folks over at MacMagazine.com.br.



112 Comments

MacPro 19845 comments · 18 Years

For me I am getting the video is denied messages on the actual YouTube pages although the first link from here worked.

macxpress 5913 comments · 16 Years

Hmmm...I was able to see all of them. I'm not sure I clicked on them all but the ones I did worked fine.

The Leopard intro movie Apple usually doesn't implement a new one until around the final build. If I remember correctly, all of the Leopard test builds had the Tiger intro movie up until nearly the GM build.

hmurchison 11824 comments · 23 Years

I've enjoyed these.

Yes ..it breaks a potential NDA but these are just small touches that won't even be covered at WWDC most likely.

ivan.rnn01 1803 comments · 16 Years

Besides, there's nothing useful or remarkable.

Controls in the new QuickTime window client area are really pitiable when watching small size clips.

The performance will hopefully impress me more than all that.

MacPro 19845 comments · 18 Years

Quote:
Originally Posted by macxpress

Hmmm...I was able to see all of them. I'm not sure I clicked on them all but the ones I did worked fine.

The Leopard intro movie Apple usually doesn't implement a new one until around the final build. If I remember correctly, all of the Leopard test builds had the Tiger intro movie up until nearly the GM build.

Just tried again, http://www.youtube.com/user/LeopardOctober only first one works for me, rest I get a denial. However they work on actual YouTube pages. Thanks for heads up to try again.